COMIC TURN Dennis Miller scales the Rushmore of wrong-headedness (Barry Crimmins Barf)

Boston Phoenix ^ | 2/28/3 | Barry Crimmins

[presidio9]

The beauty of Dennis Miller is that everything he’s doing is on tape. What he has been saying will be available for review by people for a long, long time.

Author shows his colors here. He is a communist agitator with a hidden agenda. His delusion is that the comming revolution is inevitable. When the non-existant oppressed workers he champions rise up, those that he envies (read: Commedians who are smarter, more successful, and funier than he is) will be among those punished. What a loser. Go on writing for a marginal comic book that nobody reads. Leave it to the rest of us to continue thinking about bigger things.

[Semper Paratus]

Crimmens is pissed that Miller has joined the "Forces of the Dark Side".

[KellyAdmirer]

All else aside, I find this guy's calling President Bush a "little bastard" highly offensive.

[KansasCanadian]

When you agree with the left, they love you. When you disagree with the left, its "hate speech" So predictable

[Mr. K]

Geez, make a few conservative comments and look what they say about you in Hollyweird...

Actually I always used to say Miller was weird because he ALWAYS talked conservative but somehow attributed it to Democrap ideals...

[madprof98]

They thought Miller was great when he put down pro-lifers.

[Howlin]

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/868295.asp

[Pete]

He believes his verbal consecration will make us forget that the little bastard stole the White House

That's all you need to know about this guy. He is awash in bitterness, frustration and hate. As many have said of late, the protests going on now are Anti-Bush. The war is just a convenient excuse.

[Miss Marple]

They are really nasty people, aren't they?

By the way, has Barry been on the Leno show recently? Just wondering...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nobody remembers who Georgie Jessel was anyway.

[Servant of the Nine]

Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment.

"I said thank you for helping me and always being nice to me, but now I think I am a big boy and can knife you in the back."

So9

[E Rocc]

Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment.

What's funny is that even lefties will admit that conservatives (by the standards of the industry) in entertainment make good bosses (Miller, Drew Carey, etc) but lefties like Streisand, Nader, and Michael Moore are known to be hell to work for.

-Eric

[Hawkeye's Girl]

This guy needs a hug.

[AmishDude]

Actually I always used to say Miller was weird because he ALWAYS talked conservative but somehow attributed it to Democrap ideals...

That comes from growing up in Pittsburgh.

[blackdog]

Yes, but the author's comment that the French have taken a noble position showing concern for innocents......Since when have the French leaders done so?

On the other edge of the sword, every person spouting off about anything on television or even here on the internet leaves a lasting record of their brilliance or stupidity. On the other hand Mr. Crimmins, I really don't think John Ashcroft cares one iota about what Janeanne Garaffalo shouts about on Fox News. Maybe such things are a Reno tank driving offense when our liberal friends are in power, but we just find it comical.

[cyncooper]

He believes his verbal consecration will make us forget that the little bastard stole the White House.

Yet it is Dennis Miller, according to this cretin, who is spewing hatred?

[Howlin]

I don't watch, so I don't know, but from the tone of his article, I wouldn't think so.

These people are showing their true agenda; as long as THEY have the complete attention of the public, fine; let anyone else get a foot in the door, all hell breaks loose.

Mind control. But, then, that's what they've always done, isn't it?

[dirtboy]

What's funny is that even lefties will admit that conservatives (by the standards of the industry) in entertainment make good bosses (Miller, Drew Carey, etc) but lefties like Streisand, Nader, and Michael Moore are known to be hell to work for.

Well, that's because liberals consist of those who believe they know better than everyone else and should tell everyone else how to live, and those who WANT to be told how to live. Anyone outside that vicious circle finds both types to very annoying.

[WL-law]

I really enjoyed listening to Miller on (it was either on Chris Matthews of Donahue) when he spoke openly and candidly about his views avout the Iraq, GW Bush, and the Hollywood mentality to which he refused to kowtow. However, I saw Miller also on Jay Leno, where he expressed his views as a comedy act, and there was something very uncomfortable about that. Comedy and going to war don't mix so easily, (although we have a treasure-full of witty people here on FR -- but that's a different, insiders-only audience)and Miller didn't pull it off carefully enough.

[TradicalRC]

Miller has quite an interesting career it seems. Smart and hip when he was a good ol' liberal boy, now he is becoming an obnoxious right-winger. His style doesn't seem much different in terms of abrasiveness than many other comedians of a more politically correct stripe. So my guess is that it is entirely political. Miller seems to have traversed the well worn path of many of us: starting out as a culturally indoctrinated liberal but with enough respect for truth to shift from liberal to libertarian and perhaps ultimately conservative. Or anywhere on that spectrum, say right-of-center?